ACCG Secures Heavily Redacted FOIA Release of Materials Related to "Invitation Only" Roundtable to Sign Controversial MOU with Saudi-Supported Faction in Yemen

The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has secured heavily redacted materials in response to its FOIA request  relating to a controversial "invitation only" roundtable organized by the Antiquities Coalition, a mysteriously well-funded archaeological advocacy group with ties to Middle Eastern dictatorships. The ACCG has appealed the State Department's decision to redact the materials, but what was produced demonstrates that the Biden-Harris State Department has gone even further than prior administrations in favoring archaeological advocacy groups and cutting out other interested stake holders representing trade, collector, museum, and religious and ethnic minority interests.  All this advocacy on behalf of a foreign governments also begs the question why these archaeological advocacy groups apparently do not feel a need to register under either the Lobbying Disclosure Act or Foreign Agents Registration Act.